What the Discovery of Exoplanets Reveals About the Universe | Jessie Christiansen | TED

What are the planets outside our solar system like? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jessie Christiansen has helped find thousands of them (and counting), and the variety is more wonderful and wild than you might imagine. She shares details on the trends emerging from the data -- including the intriguing possibility of "super-Earths" -- and what the discovery of exoplanets means for existential questions like: Where do we come from, and how did we get here?
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[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

*More than 60 habitable planets found!*

[@rickcullarn1347]

Good on yer Lady!

[@jadorelefrancaisbeaucoup]

amazing video!

[@TitoG13]

👋👋👋👋I can only say, there is more to come, and I'm happy for it even if I don't live to see it. My hope is that the anti-science establishment, (to whom science is their greatest threat), doesn't derail your efforts.

[@AnyOtherNamePlease]

Who is threatened by exoplanet research?

[@Piku.thinks]

Last 2 sentence of her 🖤🔥

[@ayaali8647]

I'm speak kurdish but I want to learn english and l love this talk

[@theluciadd]

1:10 This is one of the ways you can detect an exoplanet, called the transit spectroscopy method. 4:00 Likely talking about Hot Jupiters, how they're orbiting so close to their start that they are slowly being "eaten away" 4:04 Orbital resonance, we can see that in our own solar system through Jupiter's Galilean moons 5:40 The James Webb Space Telescope has already taken pictures of an exoplanet!

[@Awesome2844]

I hope you will get to take that photo ☺️

[@miskatonicalumni5612]

Why are they "all good dogs"?

[@IRefuseToUseThisStupidFeature]

These other comments are just bots spamming quotes for the algorithm.

[@simongross3122]

All dogs go to heaven

[@kristofnemcek784]

Very interesting Ted Talk, one of the best ones so far imo

[@markhancher5686]

Fantastic Job ..Everyday is Spectacular

[@inaciobrito8259]

YOU WORK IS WONDERFULL

[@vegmar]

Why do you want to find life? Life SUCKS

[@cybersekkin]

suspected exo planets - the process she is using just identifies candidates it is not confirmation. It is great and a necessary step and excited, but vastly over stated here.

[@andycordy5190]

Inspirational. Thank you.

[@andycordy5190]

@@MalikChrom That "girl" is a highly educated and experienced scientist. It is statistically impossible, to all intents and purposes, in a galaxy with trillions of star systems, that no other star should have planets. Ok. You are right, we have not yet "seen" one but we have seen where they are and in some cases the gravitational impact they have on their parent star. To "see" deep space requires more than our eyes. Without telescopes, we see hardly anything at all but wish to see more. I would accept that the argument that scientific endeavour is a waste of money to some people and that to some there is no benefit to knowing that the skies are populated by trillions of planets, some of which will be habitable. Far more money and effort is wasted in the pursuit of superstition and myth.

[@ligiasommers]

🙏🏻🪐✨🙏🏻

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“A friend's chance remark changed my mind. "What is not recorded is not remembered," she told me.” *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@michaeltrower741]

waaay too short for a TED Talk.

[@daffaakmalnugraha366]

a question pop up in my mind when I finished this video. If it’s really exist a planet that is similar to earth which support life of a creature, wouldn’t it be mean that planet will already has life on it just like the earth have humans, animals, and plants? If the statement of some religion believe we are the only living creature in the world, doesn’t that mean that there will be no planet similar to earth? hahaha

[@samnotloading6101]

We have found similar planets already. We do not know if life is out there but it’s an extremely low chance to have such developed life as we have on earth for all i know, so it’s unlikely. So far no earthlike planet is possible to travel to though, they are all to far away.

[@theluciadd]

if we find life outside of the solar system, it will disprove all religions. religious people will be devastated, but nobody can doubt scientific evidence.

[@apollodiomedes203]

@@samnotloading6101 correction - we have found planets with similar mass. So far, no planet out there is anything like Earth in terms of its atmosphere, land to water ratio etc. In fact, Kepler space telescope was supposed to find dozens of Earth analogs, but all it did find was 1 POTENTIAL candidate. So for now, we still haven’t found anything like Earth - at all. Even the famous TRAPPIST-1 system is currently believed to be completely uninhabitable.

[@andriypalamarchuk2731]

Why people post all these junk unrelated quotes under this beautiful video?

[@cediegarcia2585]

Bro I'm thinking the same, what is even the goal of these bots

[@andriypalamarchuk2731]

@@cediegarcia2585 , thank you for the comment. I hope we can push this thread to the top. Perhaps the point is to build up some kind of history for bot accounts? I don't know.

[@andriypalamarchuk2731]

We can also downvote all those junk comments.

[@AdityaMehendale]

Holy crap - spam-bots. Sooo many bots. YT - please use Google's famed "algorithm" and so sth about this..

[@andriypalamarchuk2731]

We can do something as well. I just went through the comments and dowvoted the bad comments and upvoted good ones (like yours 🙂).

[@KJ-yk4nq]

It’s incredible. 5000 in our limited view suggests they’re everywhere. It’s absurd that life developed here as it did if there’s no natural law that pushes it to happen.

[@OceanMcIntyre]

I hope you get to take that photo, too, Jessie. Thank you for doing your incredible job and for not giving up early on before you finally found your first exoplanet.

[@ScottJWaldron]

Super interesting talk on exo-planets! It's definitely an important topic. It's cool to think she could be the "photographer" for the first real picture of an earth-like exo planet. 📷

[@China-129]

_Yes-نعم_ 😊

[@ScottJWaldron]

@@MalikChrom It looks like space and imaging are not topics you have an interest in. Unless you have a research background in both then I don't understand the purpose of your response to my comment. I don't care if you find it important or not. I like space research and like the potential of imagining an exo planet as even a single pixel. Do some self reflection and ask yourself why you've reacted as you have.

[@inaciobrito8259]

THERE ATE LIFE BY INCOUNTABLES BY THE UNIVERSE AND WE ARE TINY SPECIE

[@gleysonsantos3960]

She is so passionate about his job It is inspiring

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

Maybe yes - TED 🤔 🌺 “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."- *Morihei Ueshiba* _✍🏻_ 😊

[@tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192]

👨‍🎓 ‘Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you-to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain’ 🎓 😊

[@Comewithmeifuwant2live]

10's of billions of planets in the Milky Way?? There's no way we're the only ones out there.

[@akshaypatel89870]

Solar system read book 📖 don't point on Y we not go because earth is beautiful so desposal waste

[@China-129]

“Never tell the truth to those who are not worthy of it.” *- Mark Twain*

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

"Electoral fields should never be left open," I (always) argue, remembering what my father had told me. No matter how heavy the odds, no matter how crooked the rules, always mount an opposition. *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192]

“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.” ~ NELSON MANDELA speaking during an Address at the Planetarium, Johannesburg, South Africa 16 July 2003 ------ _‘Indeed, what sculptor is to a block of marble so is education to a human soul.’_ 🎓 😊

[@scasey1960]

Congrats to the PI of the Kepler mission. I’m kinda tired of all this faux excitement about careers and less focus on the science and understanding of the results.

[@bloodmoney88]

we have more to see of earth exploration, in words Jessie used; so much more. Ask an oceanographer, or surgeon, or Vet, or historian. Don't discourage exploration saying Earth is done for your generation. Great job otherwise good on you.

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“In our male-dominated culture, boys had always been favored over girls and were not only more apt to be educated, but in extreme instances to be given food first while the mother and daughters waited. In our family, however, there was no discrimination at all. If anything, I received the most attention.” *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192]

👨‍🎓 TED "I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation, perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whilst I was still at school. With such youth, we can be sure that the ideals we celebrate today will never be extinguished." _~ Nelson Mandela ✍🏽_ 🎓 😊

[@tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192]

🇵🇰🎓 "Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat." *- Nelson Mandela* _✍🏽_ 🎓 😊

[@tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192]

🎓 “​​I am sure that from up there where he is, he is watching this beloved country of his. And in his resolute determination, which has always guided us in the darkest hours of our history, he reminds us that we can overcome any challenge if we keep focus on what is just, what is right, and the unfinished work of what has to be done to bring us closer to an existence of dignity for us all.” *-* Graça Machel _✍🏽_ 🎓 😊

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

My father had brought me here (at GKB Graveyard) just before I had left Pakistan to enter Harvard University in 1969 (and said): "Remember, whatever happens to you, you will ultimately return here. Your place is here. Your roots are here. The dust and mud and heat of Larkana are in your bones. And it is here that you will be buried!" *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@China-129]

“Nobody is going to pour the truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself.” *- Noam Chomsky*

[@BSPoK]

She looks like she’s having fun ☺️..

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“In our house education was top priority. Like his father before him, my father wanted to make examples of us, the next generation of educated and progressive Pakistanis.” *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@user-82ijsj]

15 aur krva do only 15 are left

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“The crime of the few becomes the guilt of the many.” *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself.” *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@China-129]

“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.” *- Mark Twain*

[@tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192]

🎓😊 "Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development” _-Kofi Annan_ 🎓 😊

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

TED 🤔 🌐Language “I learned Spanish as a young adult and everyone would always tell me that I spoke it wrong. The problem was that I was told I spoke English wrong too."- *Elisabet Velasquez🌺* 😊

[@China-129]

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world." *- Mahatma Gandhi*

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“That those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.’’ *- Mahatma Gandhi* 🇮🇳

[@ericB3444]

The only relevant planet is earth. Me ma is an earth person. Like we don’t go go Saturn. Me ma don’t have no Saturn car. Them cars are outdated.

[@luqmanmohamed]

Mi ma will realize how backward his brain is

[@China-129]

_❞ إن أدوات التواصل الاجتماعي ، صارت تمنح حق الكلام لفيالق من الاغبياء الحمقى ممن كانوا يتكلمون في الحانات فقط بعد تناول كأس من النبيذ، وكان يتم اسكاتهم فوراً.. أما الآن فلهم الحق بالكلام مثلهم مثل من يحمل جائزة نوبل.. إنه غزو البلهاء..!❝_ -🌺 أومبرتو إيكو 🇯🇵

[@China-129]

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always." *- Mahatma Gandhi*

[@n.o.o.n.e.1.1]

Why are you writing that kind of comments?

[@China-129]

"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time." *- Mahatma Gandhi*

[@BrianMcInnis87]

Planets. They're called planets. We don't call people from other families exopeople or other people's houses exohouses. If the planets in question are extra-Solar, you're welcome to specify that.

[@Z7d3nR4]

The Milky Way is simply the label on the jar we are in. Our universe is in some kid's science experiment. Can you imagine the size of the table she's going to need to present us? I hope she wins first prize for her human ant farm.

[@China-129]

“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.” *- Albert Camus*

[@333counselor]

You say we don't know where we came from and how we got here. Yet it seems you're trying to find what is not yet there, so you can tell us where it came from, (how it got there). That sounds to me like you're looking for a consistent design without acknowledging there is a designer? I find it amazing that we can pursue theory as fact while we treat facts as theory. Purpose is evidence of a plan that requires responsibility and that, in turn, requires ACCOUNTABILITY, which we seem to be ultimately in denial of. It is IMPOSSIBLE to "find" a perpetrator unless we acknowledge a crime has been committed. Hope you have the interest to "find" what I'm saying worth pursuing.

[@suny1265]

Another Irelevant TED Talk.

[@severinehedi]

@@gumzster this guy still watches every single video in his subscription and every single video recommended and whine about how he doesn't like them

[@Hadri_ART]

It is thanks to ppl like her if you are now watching a video on a mobile or a pc, if you use google maps to reach places, if you can use energy to warm your house and so on. In scientific research there are not useless topics, this talk is as important as others if not more in terms of progress of mankind

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

Do you need help to find the unfollow button?

[@IRefuseToUseThisStupidFeature]

@@gumzster If they are like me, I was interested. The problem is, the only thing we learned is what her job function is. Nothing about details humanity has learned in regard to exoplanets. This content is literally worthless and a complete waste of time.

[@jimbarchuk]

@@severinehedi It's a form of troll. For every post, a few people will eventually see it and their day will be just a little bit crappier, and they will have just a slightly less approving opinion of TED in general. Death by a billion *false* negative posts.

[@justparadiso]

Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life..

[@China-129]

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” *- Virginia Woolf*

[@user-82ijsj]

200 subs challenge with 0 videos

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

"Glory be to Him who has control over all things," I read from the Ya Sin sura of the Holy Quran. "To Him, you shall all return." *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@IRefuseToUseThisStupidFeature]

I feel like I have been lied to by the title and we learned NOTHING, but the fact this was a waste of time.

[@BigRalphSmith]

And here I thought that the title exactly captured the essence of what I watched and I found it interesting on top of that. Isn't it strange how we could watch exactly the same thing and come away with such divergent opinions? Expectations are everything. When expectations are unrealistic, we get one viewpoint. When they are realistic, we get another. Amazing.